Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

John Clement schrieb:

OK guys, 'amanad' was my typo copying the message into the email, here's
.amandahosts

Expected this, yes ...

orinoco.deanst.rroom.net        amanda
orinoco         amanda

and amcheck

WARNING: murray.deanst.rroom.net: selfcheck request timed out.  Host down?

Does not sound like a wrong .amandahosts ...

More details (maybe you posted them earlier ..? ):

What is your Amanda-server's fqdn?
What's the fqdn of the client?

server: orinoco.deanst.rroom.net
client: murray.deanst.rroom.net

I didn't install the server or most of the clients here, I only added a
client to this particular host yesterday using an RPM, as far as I
remember it didn't ask me to configure what user it runs under.  Can you
point me in the right direction to configuring it to run as 'amanda'
which appears to be how its set on the server...

Run "amadmin <conf> version" and look for something like :

CONFIGURE_COMMAND="'./configure' '--with-user=amanda'
'--with-group=disk' [...]

This way you find out the user and the group it was compiled with/for.

server:
user: amanda
group: disk

user: amandabackup
group: disk

Thanks, john

Stefan